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2006-08-19 09:20:51 · 11 answers · asked by duc602 7 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

did you know i got a violation for the same thing you just told me, yahoo staff is this a legal question or not.

2006-08-19 13:22:18 · update #1

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Where the ancient people crossed from Russia to the American continent centuries ago.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_land_bridge

2006-08-19 09:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by Tygirljojo 4 · 0 0

It was a land bridge that enabled our ancestors to cross from another continent.

The Bering land bridge, also known as Beringia, was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages. Beringia was not glaciated because snowfall was extremely light due to the southwesterly winds from the Pacific Ocean having lost their moisture over the fully glaciated Alaska Range.

The Bering Land Bridge is significant for several reasons, not least because it enabled human migration to the Americas from Asia about 12,000 years ago (see Models of migration to the New World). Recent studies have indicated that of the people migrating across this land bridge during that time period, only 70 left their genetic print in modern descendents, a minute effective founder population— easily misread as though implying that only 70 people crossed to North America. Sea-going coastal settlers may also have crossed much earlier, but scientific opinion remains divided on this point, and the coastal sites that would offer further information now lie submerged in up to a hundred metres of water offshore. Land animals were able to migrate through Beringia as well, bringing mammals that evolved in Asia to North America, mammals such as lions and cheetahs, which evolved into now-extinct endemic North American species, and exporting camelids that evolved in North America (and later became extinct there) to Asia.

2006-08-19 09:25:37 · answer #2 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0 1

during the ice age, enough water was frozen to drop the level of the sea by a good bit. the bering sea between alaska and the soviet union is shallow. there is also a narrow strait, i think about 50 miles between the two countries.

in the ice age, the sea was shallow enough to dry up this strait. it allowed people from asia to walk into north america. this is how the indians got to north america.

2006-08-19 09:29:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They say that many years ago the Bering Straits was together
enough to walk accross.
This was before my time.Find the Bering Straits on a map and
check it out. (or a globe)

2006-08-19 09:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0 1

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2016-12-17 13:43:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

yes, it was supposedly a piece of land that connected alsaks and russia. they claim it was used for people from asia to walk to north america about 20,000 years ago

2006-08-19 09:28:09 · answer #6 · answered by Han_dang 4 · 0 0

connected asia to the area of alaska

2006-08-19 09:25:38 · answer #7 · answered by aprilx4u 3 · 0 0

yes, it connected Russia to Alaska before it crumbled away

2006-08-19 09:26:49 · answer #8 · answered by Good Knight 2 · 0 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_land_bridge

2006-08-19 09:25:50 · answer #9 · answered by smeghead2006 1 · 1 0

it was the land between alaska and wat ever place is to the left of it is. then the glacier happend and it was gone i think

2006-08-19 09:26:13 · answer #10 · answered by babe27 2 · 0 1

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